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2609 results for: Keyword - the Lord Mayor's Show
We found 1719 matches on Performance Comments, 678 matches on Event Comments, 366 matches on Performance Title, 43 matches on Author, and 0 matches on Roles/Actors.

2301
30 November 1719 @ King's Theatre

Event Comment: For further deliberations of the Court of Directors of the Royal Academy of Music, see Lord Chamberlain's Office, 7@3 or Deutsch, p. 97

Performances

2302
02 December 1719 @ King's Theatre

Event Comment: For further deliberations of the Royal Academy of Music, see Lord Chamberlain's Office, 7@3 or Deutsch, Handel, p. 97

Performances

Mainpiece Title: None

2303
19 December 1719 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: For the order silencing Cibber, see Blanchard, Correspondence of Richard Steele, p.146

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Spartan Dame

Performance Comment: See17191211 [Cibber's role was presumably read this evening, for he had been silenced by the Lord Chamberlain.]
Related Works
Related Work: The Spartan Dame Author(s): Thomas Southerne

Song: As17191003

2304
23 January 1720 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: At the Desire of several Persons of Quality. Weekly Journal or Saturday's Post, 30 Jan.: On Saturday Night, after the Actors...had perform'd the Maid's Tragedy, a Proclamation was made upon the Stage from the Duke of Newcastle, Lord Chamberlain, signifying that it was his Majesty's Pleasure to suspend for the present any more Acting at that House

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Maid's Tragedy

Song: As17191003

2305
02 February 1720 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit Mrs Robinson. Boxes and Pit by tickets only at half a guinea. Tickets for The Man of Mode taken. [An order of the Lord Chamberlain's Office, 5@157, p. 284, directs the managers not to allow any benefit before those for Mrs Oldfield and Mrs Porter.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Old Batchelor

Song: Between the Acts: Singing-

2306
16 February 1720 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: By His Royal Highness's Command. Lord Chamberlain's Office, 5@157, p. 287: I do hereby Order and direct that Mr Gay s Pastorall Tragedy be imediately Acted after Mr Hugh's

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Stratagem

Dance: As17200210

2307
15 April 1721 @ King's Theatre

Event Comment: [Music by Ariosti, Bononcini, Handel. Text by P. A. Rolli.] Admission as 19 Nov. 1720. De Fabrice to Flemming, 21 April (in Deutsch, Handel, p. 126): The Princess of Wales was safely delivered of a son last Saturday. The news was taken to the King by Lord Herbert during...Mutius Scevola, where there was a particularly large audience on account of its being the first performance. The audience celebrated the event with loud applause and huzzas. Each act of this opera is by a different composer, -the first by a certain Pipo, the second by Bononcini, and the third by Hendell, who easily triumphed over the others

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Mutius Scaevola

2308
14 April 1722 @ Greenwich

Event Comment: London Journal, 21 April: The Scholars of Mr Weston...performed the Play of Tamerlane...before the Lords of the Admiralty, with great Applause

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Tamerlane

Performance Comment: The Scholars of Mr Weston.

2309
05 July 1723 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: [By Theophilus Cibber.] Alter'd from Shakespear. Containing the Marriages of King Edward the Fourth , and young Prince Edward , with Lady Gray , and Lady Anne . The Distresses of Queen Margaret . The Deposing King Henry the Sixth . The Battles Fought at St. Albans, Wakefield, Mortimer's-Cross, and Tewkesbury. The Deaths of Lord Clifford of Cumberland , and his Son, the Duke of York , his Steward. And many other True Historical Passages

Performances

Mainpiece Title: An Historical Tragedy Of The Civil Wars Between The Houses Of York And Lancaster In The Reign Of King Henry The Vith

2310
19 December 1723 @ Haymarket Theatre

Event Comment: Not Acted these Twenty Years. Written by the Lord Lansdowne. With new Scenes and Habits

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Heroick Love

2311
20 December 1723 @ Haymarket Theatre

Event Comment: Written by the Lord Lansdowne. With new Scenes and Habits

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Heroick Love

2312
25 February 1725 @ Lincoln's Inn Fields

Event Comment: RRich's Register: No Play by reason of a great Fire yesterday at my Lord Cardigans House being next door to the Theatre

Performances

2313
02 May 1729 @ Haymarket Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Tamerlane

Performance Comment: Bajazet-Hulett; Tamerlane-Smith; Moneses-Gillow; Axalla-Williams; Dervise-Machen; Omar-Giffard; Prince of Tanais-Downes; Arpasia-Mrs Purden; Selima-Mrs Seal, lately arrived from Ireland; To which will be added a Whimsical Letter from the Lord Viscount Flame to the Mufti of Terra@Australis@Incognita repeated-Mr Johnson of Chesire, Author of Hurlothrumbo.

Dance:

2314
01 November 1729 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: By Command of his Royal Highness. [The Prince, accompanied by the Duke of Manchester, Lord Charles Cavendish, and Colonel Schutz, present.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Careless Husband

Afterpiece Title: Perseus and Andromeda

Related Works
Related Work: Perseus and Andromeda; or, The Spaniard Outwitted Author(s): Lewis Theobald
Related Work: Perseus and Andromeda Author(s): Lewis Theobald
Related Work: The Medley; or, Harlequin At-All Author(s): Lewis Theobald

2315
06 November 1729 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: By Command of His Royal Highness. Mainpiece: Written by the late Mr Congreve. [Prince of Wales, attended by Lord Ashburnham and Colonel Townshend, attended. In Daily Post, 5 Nov., The Conscious Lovers had been announced for this day.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Way Of The World

Afterpiece Title: Harlequin Doctor Faustus

2316
27 December 1729 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: By Command of His Royal Highness. [The Prince, attended by Lord Charles Cavendish and Colonel Townshend, and Princess Caroline, attended by the Countess of Suffolk, present.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Cato

Afterpiece Title: The Beggar's Wedding

2317
11 December 1730 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Never Acted before. [by Charles Johnson.] With New Habits. [See Preface for an account of the noisy reception of the play, and Lord Hervey and his Friends, p. 61, for Hervey's amusing account of the first night.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Medea

Performance Comment: Parts-Mills, Wilks, Wm. Mills, Mrs Porter, Mrs Thurmond, Mrs Horton; but edition of 1731 lists: Aegeus-Mills Jr; Ethra-Mrs Horton; Medea-Mrs Porter; Jason-Wilks; Creon-Mills Sr; Creusa-Mrs Thurmond; Iris-Mrs Vaughan; Therapion-Corey; Eumelus-Hallam; Euriale-Mrs Grace; Prologue-Wilks; Epilogue-.
Cast
Role: Therapion Actor: Corey

2318
18 October 1731 @ Hampton Court

Event Comment: [T$Their Majesties, Prince, Duke, Princesses, and Duke of Lorrain present. See Lord Hervey and His Friends, p. 103.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Recruiting Officer

Performance Comment: The Drury Lane Company.

2319
27 November 1731 @ King's Theatre

Event Comment: [T$Their Majesties and the Royal Family present. See also Lord Hervey and his Friends, pp. 114-15.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Porus

2320
30 November 1731 @ King's Theatre

Event Comment: [T$Their Majesties, Prince, Prince William, Princess Royal, the young Princesses, and Duke of Lorrain present. See also Lord Hervey and his Friends, p. 115.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Porus

2321
08 December 1731 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: By Command of His Royal Highness. [Prince of Wales, Lord Malpas, Marquis of Caernarvan present.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Constant Couple

Afterpiece Title: The Devil to Pay

Related Works
Related Work: The Devil to Pay; or, The Wives Metamorphos'd Author(s): Theophilus Cibber

Dance:

2322
04 January 1732 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: For an amusing account of the performance, see Lord Hervey and his Friends, p. 69. Hervey's letter is dated 4 April 1731 by the editor, but 4 January 1732 must almost certainly be the correct date

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Henry Viii

Afterpiece Title: The Lottery

2323
03 June 1732 @ King's Theatre

Event Comment: For a comment on the season's operas, see See and Seem Blind...In a Letter from Lord B-to A-H-Esq. (London, 1732), part of which is reproduced in Deutsch, Handel, pp. 300-301

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Lucius Papirius

2324
04 November 1732 @ King's Theatre

Event Comment: A New Opera. [Text by Pietro Metastasio. Done into English by Humphreys. Music presumably by Leonardo Leo.] Pit and Boxes at half a guinea. [Their Majesties, Prince, and three eldest Princesses present.] See also Lord Hervey and his Friends, pp. 145-46. Daily Advertiser, 6 Nov.: There were present a very numerous Audience; and Signora Celeste Gismondi, who lately arriv'd here, perform'd a principal Part in it with universal Applause. We hear that this Opera was not compos'd by Mr Handell, but by some very eminent Master in Italy

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Cato

2325
13 November 1732 @ Fulham

Event Comment: DDaily Advertiser, 22 Nov.: A Latin Play of Terence's, call'd Eunuchus; the Theatre was newly built by the said Mr Galliardy, and is large enough to contain 150 Spectators; the Scenes were all new, and the House neat and well lighted; the Performers were young Lords, and Sons of Gentlemen of Distinction, whose Propriety of Speech and Justness of Action, exceeded all that had ever been done of the kind; the Dresses were exceeding rich, and after the Eastern Fashion; the Decorations handsome, and every thing performed...to the intire Satisfaction and Applause of the Audience

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Eunuchus